· Public charity
Maine Initiativesinc
Maine initiatives, a fund for change, cultivates social, economic, and environmental justice through grants and other support to grassroots organizations in maine communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k37 grants · $890k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION | $159,050 |
| MANO EN MANO | $100,000 |
| LAND IN COMMON | $75,000 |
| SOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER | $65,490 |
| FOOD FOR ALL SERVICES | $55,000 |
| COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $55,000 |
| INTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER | $55,000 |
| WOUNDED HEALERS INTERNATIONAL | $55,000 |
| EMPOWERED IMMIGRANT WOMEN UNITE | $55,000 |
| EARLY MATH AND LANGUAGE INITIATIVE | $55,000 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $55,000 |
| SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $55,000 |
| UNITED YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES | $55,000 |
| LADDER TO THE MOON NETWORK | $55,000 |
| SCARBOROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $45,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue ×24 · 41% of their budget
- RFResources for Organizing and Social Change8× · 2017–2024 · $743k · revenue +15% · 27% of their budget
- SMSOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER7× · 2018–2025 · $328k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- BLBOMAZEEN LAND TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -57%
- WYWABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INCone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +8%
- YJYOUTH-LED JUSTICEone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue -41%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.
To promote and ensure workers' rights
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
To build a permanent and powerful social change movement in Maine, supported by a network of committed donors.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
EqualityMaine works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education,…
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
How this is measured
107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 131 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Resources for Organizing and Social Change ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds MAINE INSIDE OUT ↗
- Who funds MAINE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION ↗
- Who funds Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine ↗
- Who funds MAINE PRISONER ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Indigo Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Presente Maine ↗
- Who funds MAINE-WABANAKI REACH ↗
- Who funds THE THIRD PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds In Her Presence ↗
- Who funds Maine Association for New Americans ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA NEW MAINERS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Gateway Community Services Maine ↗
- Who funds NEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LADDER TO THE MOON NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ARAB AMERICAN ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
- Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Maine Access Immigrant Network ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI WOMENS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds LAND IN COMMON INC ↗
- Who funds Wabanaki Alliance ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR ALL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS RELIEF ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Khmer Maine ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Acts ↗
- Who funds Wounded Healers International Inc ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds WABANAKI HEALTH & WELLNESS NPC ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
- Who funds BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · United Way Inc · Quimby Family Foundation · Maine Humanities Council · Maine Womens Fund · Haymarket People's Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maine Initiativesinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maine Initiativesinc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cooperative Development Institute Inc: 58% of income from government
- Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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